[Xastir] Who's current on Garmin handheld GPS models?

[Curt Mills]

FYI:  I ordered a Garmin GPSmap 64st and the detailed 1:24k topo maps
for WA/OR/CA/NV last night.  Oh yea, and the backpack tether thing to
go with it.  I need MT/WY/ID as well, and maybe HI, but no hurry on
those.

I have a SAR Mock Search -and- Wilderness Overnight Training coming up
right away.  All should arrive by then, so I'll get to play in the
woods right away with it!

Thanks for all the suggestions.  BTW:  This GPS is -not- for my APRS
use, strictly for SAR/hunting/hiking.  I have plenty of other GPS'es I
can use for APRS.  I'm still setting up the antennas on my Jeep so
it's not on APRS yet.  Soon though I hope.  Same for the bike.


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Unfortunately,
>
>   You are SOL with a DR.  There is no access to the TNC or data through anything. The port on the -8R and DR was for
> programming only.  With the VX8GR there is/was a serial port socket just like the sockets on  the D7A, D7A(g) and D72A.
> One could select the port to output waypoints so a handheld mapping GPS could read and plot them.
>
> I confirmed with an -8GR owner a couple of years ago that the cable for with the round plug for the Kenwoods worked with the -8GR.
> I looked up online on the GR manual and confirmed there is menu selection to output the waypoints.  It will work
> except the GR is out of production.
>
> The -8R/DR is a closed system.  Absolutely no access to the TNC whatsoever.  Cannot plug into Xastir and
> use it as a Packet or KISS TNC so Xastir can control the rig like the Kenwoods.  You'd have to connect your
> -8DR to an external TNC to be able to do that.  Sort of defeats the purpose, huh?
>
> Kurt KC9LDH
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 6/29/15, Thomas Sprinzing <thomas at sprinzing.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Xastir] Who's current on Garmin handheld GPS models?
>  To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>  Date: Monday, June 29, 2015, 2:56 PM
>
>  Am 29.06.2015 um 20:27
>  schrieb Kurt:
>  > Yup,
>  >
>  The round port cable works with the Kenwood D7a series D72A
>  and the Yaesu VX-8GR.
>  > The GR, one uses
>  the same cable as is used with the Kenwoods so one would get
>  that
>  > one even though it says it's
>  only for Kenwood.  The dataport on the GR can be set to
>  > output waypoints.
>
>  Now you got me interested - i have a first-gen
>  VX-8 DR . The only thing
>  i know from
>  disseminating the interface back then is:
>  9600 baud 3.3v - non-standard NMEA, stupid
>  "interpreter" looking for
>  positions in the strings rather than finding
>  the commas...
>
>  Others
>  weren't better off either
>
>  http://www.f4fxl.org/2013/03/05/connecting-an-external-gps-to-the-yaesu-vx8/
>
>  It's a nice hack, but i
>  just need the radio operable, not in clone mode.
>
>  Did yaesu finally come to
>  grips with that thing on the GR ?
>
>  Where would i find documentation for this?
>
>
>  Thomas
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Curt, WE7U